I have featured gaffes that US President George Bush has made before on this site, so I think he is fair game for legitimate gaffes that he makes. However, I just saw today on Channel 9 WIN News a deliberate attempt to manufacture a gaffe made by Bush in order to bash him with. WIN News played a video of Bush talking to reporters and he said this before the video was cut off:
"I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’," he said.
"Well, Mandela’s dead"
By just watching the edited video you would think Bush is an idiot because everyone knows Mandela is alive and well. However, if you actually watch the entire video you will see what Bush really said:
Bush was clearly referring to the fact that Iraq has no Mandela like person to unite the country under because Saddam killed all the people with Mandela qualities. However, by watching WIN News they don’t play the whole clip and they edit it to make Bush out to look like an idiot. Bush makes enough genuine gaffes to make fun of him over, but I find it down right disgraceful that WIN News has to stoop to such a level to manufacture something like this in order to bash Bush with.
To be fair, WIN News is not the only one playing the Bush bashing game here. I did a little research and found that Reuters is the one that started this attempt to manufacture a controversy where none existed by publishing this same story yesterday. I’m willing to bet WIN News read the Reuters story and then edited the video to show their viewers here in Australia in order to bash Bush with. This is clearly just another case of BDS.
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